Life Quotes

The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.

William Booth

A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so pro...

Wendell Berry

Hold your head high heavy heart.

William Beckett

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Wernher von Braun

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

William S. Burroughs

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Walter Benjamin

Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!...

Will Brenner

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

William Bernstein

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Wendell Berry

George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Walt Disney, Saving Mr. Banks

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

Walt Disney SAVING MR BANKS

There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be t...

Wendell Berry

Failure is an event, never a person.

William D. Brown

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Warren Buffett

I Believe in Miracles and the Power of the Individual to make a positive difference in the world.

Warren Brown

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

William S. Burroughs

Every Smile Is A Blessing While Every Tear Is a Lesson :)

Windy Blackcloud

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William S. Burroughs

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [i...

Warren Buffett

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

Wendell Berry

God will not judge by man’s standard of what is right, but by His own, and they are vastly different!

William Branks